CHAPTER ELEVEN-2
Jemima was in charge of New York. She was traditionalProgramme, Nahum’s co-missionary. Once, she had been a schoolteacher. The Programme had often attracted teachers. Micah and Hannah - parents of Tamar and Thomas - had been schoolteachers, too. They were good organisers; useful members; no threat. So long as the Kroger case continued - months perhaps years - they needed New York to stay calm, staid even. It was a good place to recruit - better maybe than Boston - but recruits were more volatile. Jemima’s calming atmosphere served to weed out the worst of them; Merry’s, too. In Boston, Paimon could not help himself: however hard he tried to impress on recruits the need for self-control, they could scent the danger bubbling beneath the surface; for many, it was what they wanted, worth han
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